Top 1200 Self Perception Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer - thought on thought - fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables - unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not 'doing without,' it is 'doing within.'

Self-compassion - being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in the face of stress and failure - is associated with more motivation and better self-control.

Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

What if nothing needs to change other than our perception of what we see?

The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

People think I can't go shopping - that's their perception of how famous I am.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

The real self is who you are when you're at home, when you're comfortable, and the false self is what you're pretending - and the reason you pretend is because you want to create a character for the surroundings you're within.

Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or rather the rejection of the self. Dedication in the obverse side of self-rejection. Man alone is a religious animal because, as Montaigne points out, it is a malady confined to man, and not seen in any other creature, to hate and despise ourselves.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

Even the self-assured will raise their perceived self-efficacy if models teach them better ways of doing things.

Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

I went into the surgery room as my former self Neeru Bheda but came out as a new and improved version of my own self - Rakhi Sawant.

In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

Control the public's perception of you and nobody will care if you have any talent.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

This perception that we can be stars without any work and just appear is rubbish.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that - how to express this - you really must make the self.

It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.

You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.

Life is perception. We perceive through different parts of the body of the universe.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.

... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.

All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of their own most intimate feelings, achieve what they deserve: not self-understanding but radical self-superficialization, not a discovered but a self-ascribed identity that explains nothing, reveals nothing, means nothing, and ultimately accomplishes nothing culturally or intellectually.

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

When things begin to go bad, the perception of people makes it worse.

Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh, I’m kind of an asshole.’

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.